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Causeway police chief resigns PDF Print E-mail
By The Associated Press   
Tuesday, July 01 2008

METAIRIE, La. (AP) -- Causeway Police Chief Felix Loicano has resigned. The move comes after Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price drove through a toll booth barricade and admitted he had been drinking but was not tested for drunk driving.

 
Council scrutinizing N.O. crime camera contract PDF Print E-mail
By The Associated   
Thursday, June 26 2008

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Mayor Ray Nagin's administration is under fire for what one City Council member called a ``fishy'' bid for crime cameras.

 
La. lawmaker pay raise bill draws ire from voters PDF Print E-mail
By The Associated Press   
Wednesday, June 25 2008

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A recall petition has been filed against the Speaker of the Louisiana House, the fourth such petition filed against a state lawmaker since legislators voted last week to double their own pay.

 
A look at lawmakers refusing the pay raise PDF Print E-mail
By The Associated Press   
Wednesday, June 18 2008

Louisiana lawmakers had until Tuesday to submit forms that will keep their salaries at the current rates, if a pay raise becomes law. A look at who's refusing the pay raise and who opposed the pay raise bill:

 
La. House debates bill to raise lawmaker pay PDF Print E-mail
By The Associated Press   
Friday, June 13 2008

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Louisiana House has begun debate on a bill to triple the pay of state lawmakers.

 
House set to debate pay raise bill PDF Print E-mail
By The Associated Press   
Friday, June 13 2008

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A bill to triple state lawmakers' pay is generating outcries of opposition as the Louisiana House plans to take a vote on the proposal.

 
House set to debate pay raise bill PDF Print E-mail
By The Associated Press   
Friday, June 13 2008

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A bill to triple state lawmakers' pay is generating outcries of opposition as the Louisiana House plans to take a vote on the proposal.

 
Study: La.'s incarceration rate leads nation PDF Print E-mail
By The Associated Press   
Wednesday, June 11 2008

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- In Louisiana last year, federal records show 857 of every 100,000 residents were in prison -- a rate that led the nation.

 
City gives deadline for leaving FEMA trailers PDF Print E-mail
By The Associated Press   
Friday, June 06 2008

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans is giving residents until July to vacate federally issued trailers intended as temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina.

 
'GLORY DAYS' FOR LOCAL SPORTS PDF Print E-mail
By Ken Trahan   
Friday, March 28 2008
It simply did not figure this way following the events of August of 2005. Prognosticators everywhere were casting gloom and doom upon the local sports landscape.
 

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